Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-05
A BRIGHT ARRAY
OF NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL PARIS OF The
INTERIOR OF THB STATE
! A Lrss Oollse6oa Of The BsS: things FOant IN
The Col1nns Of the Weakly Journals Of
the Back Counties.

There is scarcity of water at Fsyette-
vile.
A military company has been formed at
Fairmont.
AK.ofP. lodge is to be organized at
Morgantown.
Two Writ county men have 5000
cross ties ready for market.
The skating rink at New Cumberland is
being transformed into depot.
New York parties are about to start 9
large tannery in Tucker County.
The time for shooting quail has expired.
Pheasants may be shot until January l.
Huntington is TO be connected with
several cities in Ohio and Kentucky, by
telephone.
The insurance at the recent Huntington
the Etns OF Wheeling.
In Clay county, recently, two licenses
were issued to different man on the same
day, to marry the same girl.
NJ B. McIutosh, Of Cooperstown, Pa,
has purchased 500 acres Of timber land in
Writ county, and will erect two saw
mills.
Asa White, one OF Boone county's pop
ulsr merchants, and seven others of
Whites heirs, recently sold to London cap
italists, boundary of land situate in that
county, at Gordon, supposed TO contain
5000 acres, for $4,000.
Levi c. Stiles, q well-knowu laborer
and respectable citizen of Bsttelle Dis
trict, Monongahelia CouAty, was killed 10 q
coal bank near Wise on Tuesday of las.
week. The unfortunate man was caught
under fall of slate and almost instantly
killed. He leaves q wife and four small
children.
A four year old child Of Mr.. aud Mrs
John Gibson, OF Glen Elk, Kanawha cOun-
ty, was burned so badly last Monday, that
ii died from the effects on Tuesday even
ing at o'clock. Mrs. Gibson had occa-
sion 10 leave the room for few moments
and when she retained, found the child's
clothes in flames.
Ex-senator Camden hiss presented the
Camden Guards, Of Marion county. with d
large and handsome double silk flag, the
original cost OF which was $50 The Seua
tor has extended an invitation 10 sill is
members 10 visit him at his home in Park
ersburg carly in the spring and partaGe OF
his hospitality, which invitation has been
unanimously accepted by the Guards
An extraordinary effort is being made,
we are informed, to obtain q pardon for
Jerry Parsons, Of Writ county, who was
convicted at the March term last of the
Circuit Court and sentenced 10 the Peni-
Tertiary for three years, for horse stealing.
A petition containing about seven hun
dred names has been presented to the Gov
ernOr asking his release.
A contract has been signed by the B. <.
y. Railroad authorities to construct rail-
road either from Alpine Station or Sir
Johns Run to Berkeley Springs FIR the
$50, 900 subscribed by Morgan county and
the town of Bath. 1t is hoped that the
road will be completed by the first day of
June, though under the contract the first
day of July, 1883, is the limit.
great wolf hunt came Of in the noun.
tains of PendIeton, Grant and Randolph
counties, last Wednesday. A great laurel
thicket, ten miles long, was surrounded by
hounds ard about one hundred men, and
lot of the animals were killed. The raid
was The outgrowth of depredations COM
mitted among the sheep OF neighbOriug
farmers